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# 3182 I VOL 154, No.2 ISSN: 0030-8579 • • 2 FEB. 3-16, 2012 LETTERS PACIFIC ' CITIZEN PACIFIC ~ CITIZEN GOD BLESS OUR AMERICAN SOLDIERS HOW TO REACH US ..; E-mail: [email protected] Online: W>MN.pacificcitizen.org :z- Tel: (213) 620-1767 Fax: (213) 620-1768 Mail: 25OE. First Street, Suite 301 Los Angeles, CA 90012 to the STAFF Executive Editor Caroline Y Aoya!j-Stom
Assistant Editor Lynda Un COLUMNIST KUMPEL EVOKES Reporter Nalea J. Ko
STRONG REACTION FROM READERS Business Manager Staci Hisayasu This letter is in regards to the column by James KumpeJ in the Nov. Y ~AMJT O IS-Dec. 15, 2011, issue of the Pacific Citizen. His support of the Tea COJRTESY IT BR AN Circulation Eva Lau-Ting Party in a publication dedicated to the Asian Pacific community is At last our heroes have been or Swedish and the brunette was highly offensive, not primarily because I do not share his perspec• duly honored with the Congres• British or French, when one girl The Pacific Citizen newspaper (ISSN: omO-8579) is published tive, but rather that the mission of the JACL is supposed to be beyond sional Gold Medal which they so asked them to guess where I was semi-monthly (except once in De• partisanship. richly deserve for their services in from. Much to our surprise, one cember and January) by the Japa• Is it not enough that the country is inflamed by political divisions? the 100th Battalion, 442nd Regi• man said: 'Oh we know she is an nese American Citizens League, Do we now have to see the become a place to debate our political ment and :Military Intelligence American from America.' When Pacific Citizen, P.c. 25OE. 1st Street, SUite301, Los perspectives under the guise of "freedom of the press"? Does being a Service during World War II. asked how he could know that I Angeles, CA 90012 JACL chapter board member permit "free press" for political ideol• Whenever stories of their hero• was American he replied: 'All the Periodical postage paid at LA., CA POSTMASTER: send address ogy that has little to do with the goals of the JACL? ism are retold, I am in awe of their American soldiers who helped changes to National JACL, 1765 I am not a "radical anarchist" but I did participate in Occupy Wall accomplishments and they make save our village looked like her,' Sutter St., San Francisco, CA 94115 AJA. Street. We did not see signs denigrating Republicans or Democrats. me proud to be an I am a pointing in my direction. Then JACL President: David Kawamoto It is a cause beyond partisanship as JACL needs to be. But even such Sansei, born in Honolulu, and in the young men started cheering: National Director: Floyd Mori issues have no place in the P.c., as it does not directly relate to the 1962 I was a stewardess for Pan 'American, American,' while P.C. EDITORIAL BOARD specific concerns of Asian Americans, unless we open this floodgate Am stationed in New York. I they circled around us. Judith Aono, chairperson; Paul recall a flight assignment to Rome I was oveIWhelmed by the Niwa, EDC; Kevin Miyazaki, MDC; as the editors seem to be on the path to doing. Roberta Barton, CCDC; David Un• I have been a long-time supporter of the JACL but would seriously when we had a couple of days thoughts of the brave young ruhe, NCWNPDC; Hugh Burleson, consider withdrawing this support if we become a voice for a politi• layover. So two other steward• American soldiers who helped PNWDC; Gil Asakawa, IDC; Cindi esses (a blonde from Boston and a save all those villages and towns Harbottle, PSWDC; Sonya Kuki, cal party, irrespective of the relevancy to Asian Pacific concerns. I Youth P.c. Canadian blue-eyed brunette) and in Europe. It was the most heart• hope we will re-examine our objectives and mandates of the SUBSCRIBE I decided to do some sight-seeing ening times of my life. So, I thank Get a one-year subscription of the Kathy Biala while shopping. all you brave American Congres• Pacific Citizen newspaper at: We were in downtown Rome, sional Gold Medal Honorees and Wu'vW.pacificcitizen.org or call Fresno, Calif. (800) 966-6157 when a few young men ap• God Bless. ADVERTISE Got the latest issue of the Pa• Thank you for adding bal• proached us. They tried guessing To advertise in the Pacific Citizen, cific Citizen. You don't have the ance to your publication. I en• where the other girls were from, Nancy Sakurai call (SOO) 966-6157 or e-mail: [email protected] column inches to waste on col• joy reading James Kumpel's saying the blonde was German San Francisco, CA umnist James Kumpel and the LEGAL articles. He has given me rea• No part 01 this pubUcation may be rightwing place. son to renew my JACL mem• reproduced wHhoutthe express per• I will continue to complain bership. mission of the Pacific Citizen. 'till he is removed - for lying. DOESN'T NATIONAL COUNCIL DECIDE Editorials, news and the opinions ex• pressed by columnists oIher thai the Since when do you allow lies? Tracie Sasaki Seibert THE LOCATION OF ITS DIRECTOR? national JACL president or national di• Via email rector do nol necessarily reflect JACL Donald Gecewicz Vice President Gail Sueki's recent commentary (Nov. IS-Dec. 15, policy. Events aid products advertised in the Pacific Citizen do nol carry the Chicago, Illinois 2011, Pacific Citizen) piqued my interest since it indicated that the na• impUcl endorsement of the JACL or tional board had decided that the director would be located in D.C. I this publication. We reserve the right to wonder if the provision in the JACLConstitution & Bylaws that nation• edit artides. © 2012 al council determines the location of headquarters has been amended so Periodicals paid at Los Angeles, REMEMBERING SANTA ANITA the national board decides its location. I presume that it is still expected Calif and mailing office. that the national director shall be located at the national headquarters. ASSEMBLY CENTER The issue is close to me since I, as 1970-72 NCWNP governor, in• JACL MEMBERS stigated the building of the JACL headquarters in San Francisco as a Change of Thank you for the nice articles of all the camps and assembly cen• means of thwarting a move by some members of the national board to Address ters. I did not see any articles about the Santa Anita Assembly Center relocate the headquarters to Los Angeles after Masao Satow was eased in Arcadia, Calif. out of the national directorship he had so arduously filled for over 25 If you've moved, please send new When Pearl Harbor was attacked, I was 19 years old living on a years. information to: farm in Downey, Calif. Our family of three girls and one boy were As a newcomer to the JACL leadership, rather than simply oppos• National JACL sent to Santa Anita Assembly Center on April 14, 1942. I believe there ing the move, I gained the support of the San Francisco JACL and the were 10,000 of us there. NCWNP district council to build a JACL headquarters in Japantown. I Francisco, CA Many of my girlfriends worked on making the camouflage nets for believed that if the national council approved the building of a national 94115 the war in the grand stand. I worked in the mess hall. We lived in the headquarters building in San Francisco, that action would moot the horse stable for six months. Some lived near the race track. movement of the JACL headquarters away from Northern California ~ acldrE'ss changes. We were sent to Rohwer Internment Camp on Sept. 24, 1942. It to Southern California. The national council approved the building of took two days on the train to arrive there. the headquarters building in San Francisco at its biennial convention at To avoid interrup• I am 90 years old now, and writing about my camp days I have D.C. in 1972 and the headquarters was dedicated there in 1974. tions in delivery, remembered. My ploy seemed to have worked until recently when the national please notify your postmaster to Is there going to be any marker at Santa Anita saying Japanese director's office was somehow moved to D.C., where a D.c. represen• include periodicals tative had been located previously. Americans also lived here for a short time? in your change of address (USPS Susan :Matsumoto Shigeki J. Sugiyama Form 3575) Kalaheo, Kauai Past National JACL President (1974-1976) PACIFIC ~ CITIZEN IN-DEPTH FEB. 3-16,2012 3 AA ADVOCATES DEMAND JUSTICE FOR PRIVATE CHEN
Following the death of Chen, AA advocates are calling for the military to uphold its policies to prevent hazing and racially motivated harassment.
CCl...ffiESY Cf' TI-fO CI-fO N FA/,j ILY J. By Nalea Ko, Reporter Pvt. Danny Chen's death has raised alarms for rrnny in the Asian American communit'll
sian Americans advocates voiced death of Chen. Elizabeth OuYang, New York from the Army at the Pentagon on Dec. 14 For some, the news of Chen's death hits their frustrations after a military branch president of OCA and spokesperson to discuss diversity training in the military close to home. investigating officer recommend• for the family, said Chen's parents are upset and disciplinary guidelines for possible haz• "It has become increasingly clear that A ed dropping the involuntary man• at the news. ing incidents. hazing and harassment must be addressed slaughter charge against an accused infantry• "They feel it is not enough for what they Also present at the meeting were Rep. throughout our armed services. In the case man in Pvt Danny Chen's death. did to Danny," OuYang said. "Danny was the Nydia Vehsquez, D-New York, and New of Private Danny Chen, his Chinese heri• The recommendation was made public only Asian American in his platoon in Af• York City Councilwoman 1-hrgaret Chin, tage led to violent racial discrimination and Jan. 22 after a hearing wrapped up for Spc. ghanistan. Accoming to Anny investigatolS, said JACLNational Director Boyd 1-klri. harsh treatment," said Rep. Judy Chu. "My Ryan Offutt, 32. Offutt faces 13 charges in he was called 'Gook' , 'Chink' and 'Dragon "lhrassment, bullying and hazing are all nephew (Harry Lew) took his own life af• connection with the Oct. 3 death of Chinese Lady.'" too prevalent in our institutions and a ma• ter enduring hazing and physical assault I American infantryman Pvt Danny Chen, Chen was also allegedly forced in a sepa• jor part of this cruel treatment is targeted at know filSthand the pain a family faces when who was 19 when he was found dead in a rate incident to tell his English-speaking theAAPI community," Mori said. "We also hazing leads to the loss ofa loved one, and guard tower from an apparent self-inflicted comrades how to pitch a tent in Chinese, want to see justice administered in the case it is something no family should have to en• gunshot wound. OuYang added. of Danny Chen where those who were re• dure." All other charges were recommended to be The news of Chen's death has inspired sponsible in causing his death are given the To ensure that these incidents are not re• forwarded to a court martial. other Asian Americans to air their grievances maximum punishment allowed by military peated, civil rights organizations like OCA 'While it's true that the investigating officer about their experiences in the military. law." are circulating a petition asking for the com• in the Offutt case did not recommend to the "Pvt. Danny Chen he grew up pretty much Chen's case comes after another Chinese munity to take action for Chen. Special Court-1furtial Convening Author• two blocks from where I grew up. So I can American, lance Cpl. Harry Lew, commit• The petition suggests that the community ity that manslaughter charges go forward to definitely empathize with him because as an ted suicide in Afghanistan after allegedly follow several action items such as demand• trial, he (the special court-martial convening Asian American I also got some of the racist being hazed by fellow 1furines. ing that the court martials be convened in authority) does have the latitude to make that jokes from my peers when I was in the mili• Eighteen months after Lew enlisted in the the U.S., contacting the OCA New York recommendation to the Army major gener.:t1 tary," said Pakee Fang, 29, a Chinese Ameri• 1furines he committed suicide by shooting branch with military hazing stories, hold• who is the general court-martial convening can who was in the United States 1-hrines himself in the head with a machine gun. ing teach-ins about Chen's death, writing to authority," said George Wright, an Army Corps. "So racism does exist in the military. Before he died in April of 2011, Lew newspapers and city councilmembers and spokesman at the Pentagon. It truly does." scrawled a suicide note on his arm saying, becoming a member of the organization, Offutt is one of eight United States Army But not all Asian American soldielS say "11:ty hate me now, but in the long run this amon g other things. soldiers who are facing charges in the death their time in the military mirrors Chen's ex• was the right choice. I'm sorry. My mom de• Community leaders say they hope Chen's of Chen. Investigation hearin gs for the other perience. Lt Col. Clifford Chen, a Chinese serves the truth. " case will lead to more effective diversity accused soldiers will be held before Feb. 20. American who was born in New York and Fellow soldiers allegedly physically and haining to ensure soldiers are able to safely Chen, who grew up Chinatown New York, grew up in California, says 1-hrines have a verbally abused Lew after he fell asleep serve their country. was deployed to Afghanistan, where he alleg• saying that they are all one color: green. while standing guard a day before his death. "The hazing of Private Danny Chen, that edly endured racial harassment from superior "It's become passe to use that expression, Three 1-hrines are accused in the case. allegedly caused his death, is an urgent call officers. but I think the intent was correct," Chen said. Lance Cpl. Jacob D. Jacoby appeared Jan. to action," said Rep. Mike Honda. Hours before Chen's death he allegedly "Like anywhere I have probably come across 30 before a special court-martial in Hawaii "I hope that the House Committees on was subjected to verbal and physical abuse individuals that may have been ignorant or where he pleaded guilty as a part of a plea Armed &rvices and Oversight and Govern• from his superior officers after he took a racially insensitive, but I couldn't say that I deal. Prosecutors withdrew charges that Ja• ment Reform will take these warnings seri• shower and forgot to turn off a water heater. have ever experienced systematic maltreat• coby threatened and humiliated Lew. ously and hold hearings in order to protect Asian American advocates say it is an out• ment or discrimination based on my race." The court-martial proceedings for Sgt. our brave service membelS from any future rage to drop the most serious charge against Advocates from OCA, JACLand theAsian Benjamin Johns and Lance Cpl. Carols Oro• danger." • one of the eight infantrymen charged in the American Justice Center met with officials zco III will occur at hter dates. 4 FEB 3-16, 2012 IN-DEPTH PACIFIC ~ CITIZEN
Gould shares a unique history to the camp. Her father-in-hw owned the fonner swamp• land Rohwer was built on, selling his hnd to the government during the war. By the time Gould arrived in Rohwer in 1949, when she married her husband, she said nobody talked about the camps. She has had over 2,000 former internees visit her since obtain in g the collection in 1982.
Finding Former Internees One of the main goals of the museum project is to locate former internees and their families to invite them to return to the former grounds and see the museum. So far only four West Coast families have contact• ed 1-hy. According to 1fuy, there are currently no JAs in McGehee, Arkansas, a town with a population of 4,500. The last JA family that was around after the incarceration, he be• lieves, went north to Little Rock, their de• scendants dying about seven years ago. "There's no one here that was in those camps," he said. They've also sent letters to surrounding
PI-tJTO DEBOOAH I-D'IN schools within a 200-mile radius of McGe• Jeff OVvj'ang, co-chair of the WWII JA Internment Museum project, and McGehee ~yor Jack May at the Railroad Depot Museum. hee inviting classes to come to the museum and learn about the camps. Eiichi Kamiya was incarcerated with his family first at the Santa Anita Assembly TOWN OF MCGEHEE, ARKANSAS DETERMINED TO Center, then at Jerome, and finally at Ro• hwer. JEROMEIROHWER INTERNMENT MUSEUM Incarcerated as a child, he took his fam• ily with him to return to the former camp• grounds in 1979 when his children were the Locals, including the small town's mayor, have raised same age. "It was kind of like showing them what life money for a museum to be built in honor of the former was like for me when I was their age," he said. During his visit, he spoke to some locals Japanese Americans incarcerated there during WWII. and was surprised to find that many of them had looked at the former internees with envy. By Christine McFadden, Correspondent "Back in those days, it was really back- ward," he said. Without running water and ayor Jack 1hy of 11cGehee, town of 1-kGehee is the peIfect place for a Foundation, the AIkansas Highway Depart• a sewage system, many of the locals were Arkansas has been working museum, geographically and historically. ment, the AIkansas Economic Development envious ofthe JAs inside. ''We lived inside of the barbed wire and for years to construct a mu• "There's a lot of people in our part of Commission, as well as local donations. seum commemorating the &)lltheast Arkansas that are very familiar The team is currently waiting for approval they looked at us in envy ... we just sat in M there and ate; they thou ght the guards were Japanese American internees at the former with the two camps and have some connec• from the Arkansas Highway Department to Rohwer and Jerome World War II intern• tions with the people out there," said 1-hy. get started, said Jeff 0.vyoun g, co-chair of there to keep them away." mentcamps. "Even today in McGehee, AIkansas, I can the WWII JA Internment Museum project McGehee resident Bill Conway hopes the 1hy is not lA, nor does he have relatives show you buildings that were moved and are "After that we will start taking bids on the museum will become a tourist attraction for that were incarcerated. His connection goes still being used." project," he said. Owyoung, of Chinese de• those visiting the small, :Mississippi Delta back to his father who was a deputy sheriff With enough grant money obtained, the scent, was named co-chair of the museum town. Among the future plans for the muse• um also include the construction of a memo• and his uncle, a deputy security camp com• WWII Japanese American Internment Mu• project along with 1-1elissa Gober after they mander at Rohwer durin g WWII. Born in seum project is currently aiming to open the were named McGehee Chamber of Com• rial park and the restoration of a monument 1939, 1fuy recalls visiting his family work• physical museum by the end of 2012 with merce 1-hn & Woman of the Year. at Rohwer. ing at Rohwer as a child. a dedication ceremony sometime in October. He is hoping that the museum can one day But Conway also hopes the museum will "On Sunday afternoon, [I'd] go visit my 1-hy is hoping that the museum will attract display on loan a collection donated to the stand as an important civil rights lesson. aunt and uncle and cousin at this camp, " he former internees and their families to visit Butler Center for Arkansas Studies in Little The museum will "remind people of how said.1-hy recalls the tarpaper buiklings, the "I was out there during the war as a small Rock by former McGehee 1-hyor Rosalie fIagile their freedom really is," he said .• common cafeteria, and the muddy roads child, " he said. "These are the only two per• Goukl. from a lack of gravel in the hastily construct• manent camps east of Colorado." The collection features fonner artwoIk, If you or your relatives were incarcerated ed camps. letters, and other valuables from the camp. at Rohwer or Jerome and are interested in ''We didn't eat in the cafeteria with them Building a Dream in McGehee When art teacher Jamie Vogel, who taught in reaching out to Mayor Jack May, contact him at: [email protected]. [the JAs]," 1-hy recalled. "I think the fami• The previous exhibit, "Life Interrnpted: Rohwer, passed away in 1982, she willed her lies employed there had their own kitchens." The Japanese American Experience in collection to Goukl. When 1-hy was contacted two years ago Workl War II AIkansas," was constructed by Over time, her collection grew into what by the Delta Cultural Center about a JA the Japanese American National Museum in some have called "the most comprehensive 'These are the only two exhibit in storage looking for a permanent Los Angeles and the University of Arkansas, collection that was in private hands," Goukl permanent camps east home, he agreed to help. The project to ob• Little Rock. said. When she donated it to the Butler Cen• tain funding and renovate an old train depot To bring it out of storage, the museum ter, it was appraised ata value of one million of Colorado. in 1-kGehee began. project and 1-hyor 1fuy have obtained dollars. Mayor Jack May Located right between the two camps, the $767,000 in grants from the National FaIk Similar to 1-hyor 1fuy, former 1-hyor PACIFIC ~ CITlZEN IN-DEPTH FEB3-16,20t2 5 CELEBRATING THE YEAR OF THE DRAGON: ASIAN AM RING IN THE YEAR
AAs invite us into chilemn's ~ "tanlins of Ja]l3f"'''' ~w di s ~ s like bIack beans are seen as gco:i bx k Jap",,",'" New Year is celebrated, New Year Year trad tional foo±, 'E1.t I oon't think for o,.., 's bwi,..,ss, Eating ro±ed shrimp, ce"braticru are primarily. a tin-., Yick = s their New Year's e",n YOUll8 peop" in Japan kmw, Japan Matsma says , duri'll a New Year's feast to erj oy. beins with his family. !:as changed siree I was a kid, bo, But it's ensures a Ions life, arrl lwtumaJ;:;, or a \zIp '\J",r ~ COlISe of this tin-." "" tra",1 mturaI for kids livi'll ~ re [in \U US] rot reiL brings !:aWi,..,ss to visit family. arrl frien±, brinsins fcOO celebrations and b uarstarrl fully. " '£och cooked dish has =arins rf healthy. dis ~ s with w b celebrate toge\Ur \U New lli Ja]l3f"'se ~ w Year rituals observed life, gco:i luck. S1XCe SS with bw i,..,ss arrl Year, " Yiek said, woo is \U PSW d strict's talk about the by. many. people of Ja]l3f"'se c),scentIike \U e\cetera," sari Matsma, 't-.-bchi, zou-nJ, is c),,,,lopn-.,nt coordinator. 'I n $662 billion act provides military funding for Reminiscent of the 2012 and includes a controversial provision WWII incarceration, the that allows for the indefinite detention of US. citizens and non-citizens suspected of act would allow for the terrorist activities without trial or charge, indefinite detention of denying them legal rights under the US. constitution U.S. citizens suspected Obama himself expressed misgivings about the legislation even as he signed his of terrorist activities. name to the bill. Originally saying that he would veto the bill, he hter changed his By Pacific Citizen Staff position after Congress made some last• minute revisions. Obama has vowed to use In the midst of New Year's Eve his discretion in applying various measures celebrations, many may have missed of the bill, especially the portion dealing President Barack Obama's reauthorization with indefinite detention. of the controvelSial National Defense "I have signed this bill despite having Authorization Act which allows for the serious reservations with certain provisions indefinite detention of U.S. citizens. But that reguhte the detention, interrogation, and "Shame on Congress for passing this As JA groups around the country those lapaneseAmericans who were victims prosecution of suspected terrorists," Obama new law," said National JACL Director prepare for Day of Remembrance events themselves of similar laws during World said in a Washington Post article. "I want Floyd 1-1ori. "The JACL is disappointed commemorating the signing of Executive 'War II were paying close attention. to chrify that my Administration will not in the president for signing into law these Order 9066, which led to the incarceration "I know you know that this was wrong, and authorize the indefinite military detention provisions that will allow the same kind of close to 120,000 Americans of Japanese yet you did it anyway," wrote community without trial of American citizens. Indeed, I of hysteria, bigotry, and poor political ancestry, the signing of the defense act will activist Soji Kashiwagi, human relations believe that doing so would break with our leadership to perpetuate abuses of civil likely be utmost on their minds. commissioner for the City of Pasadena, most important haditions and values as a rights of many Americans as it did during "This year, in the context of the National California, in a personal letter to Obama. Nation." World WarII." Defense Authorization Act that provides for "And I'm here to remind you that the He added, he would "reject any approach He added, "The president caved in on his indefinite military detention of the accused, couseq uences of those actions and the Ion g• that would mandate military custody where earlier vow to veto NDAA and accepted we need to be more vigilant than ever," term damage done to Japanese Americans law enforcement provides the best method amendments that only protect citizens' wrote Barbara Takei, CFO of the non-profit over 70 years ago are still bein g felt to this of incapacitating a terrorist threat." Constitutional rights on the surface. He Tule Lake Committee. "During this time day." National JACL immediately expressed allowed American citizens' rights to be when Japanese Americans and other civil Kashiwagi's sentiments were expressed concern of the defense act, noting the sacrificed for political expediency. Let's rights advocates are planning Day of Re• by many JAs after Obamasigned his name to simihrities to the incarceration of Japanese listen to the warnings of history and let's membIance programs ... we must not close the controversial bill Dec. 31. The sweeping Americans during World War II. remember for what the Constitution stands." our eyes to what is happening again .• KOREAN AMERICANS PROTEST RACIST REMARKS BY 'THE JOHN AND KEN SHOW' Target. Members of San 1-1embers of the Korean American Bar Fernando Valley JACL Association also noted in a letter to KFI AM 640 Program Director Robin Bertoluci that take part in a Jan. 19 Kobylt and Chiampou make a distinction protest in a show of between "Korean" and "American." "1-1essers. Kobylt and Chiampou seem solidarity with the Korean to have forgotten that Korean Americans are, in fact, Americans," the letter states. American community. "Comments like theirs only serve to foster negative stereotypes about the Korean By Pacific Citizen Staff American community, which has in fact contributed tremendously to the economic, In a show of solidarity, members of JACL social, and cultural fabric of Southern joined the Korean American community in California and the United States." protesting racist remarks made by the hosts SFVJA Protestors also took their demands to of the popular Clear Channel-owned "The the headquarters of KFI Radio in Burbank John and Ken Show" on KFI AM 640 in Los at a rally Jan. 19 sponsored by the Korean Angeles. Members of the SFV JACLand the Korean Amerian cOlTlTlunity protest outside KFI studios. Resource Center. 1-1embers of the San On a Jan. 5 airin g of the talk Iadio show, Fernando JACL held signs that read "Stop hosts John Kobyltand Ken Chiampou began combating injustice and hate against the kind of hateful and divisive rhetoric that Racism" and "Keep Hate Speech off the a discussion on unethical business practices. Asian and other immigrant communities the show reguhrly employs." Air" to show their solidarity with the Korean Fart of their comments included statements APALC is here today to stand in support Other groups taking part in the press American community. about Korean American painters as "scam of the Korean American community and conference included the National Korean The recent protest by the Asian American guys" who seek to "rip people off." organizations, such as Korean Resource American Service & Education Consortium, community is part of a larger effort by the The comments stirred immediate Center, who demand that Clear Channel Koreatown ImmigIant Workers Alliance and National Hispanic 1-1edia Coalition which responses from groups like the Asian Pacific and KFI AM pull this show from the air," the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights has also complained in the past about the American Legal Center and the Korean said Senior Staff Attorney Yungsuhn Park of Los Angeles. In addition to condemning anti-immigrant comments by the hosts of Resource Center, which called the hosts' at a press conference Jan. 17. "In Southern the remarks made by the hosts of "The John "The John and Ken Show" towards Latinos. comments racist and a continuing attack California, which is home to the largest and Ken Show" the groups are asking for The group is callin g for the show to be taken on immigrant communities, including the Korean population outside of Korea and one advertisers to pull their support of the show. off the air.• Latino and African American communities. of the largest and most diverse immigrant Some of the current advertisers include: "As an organization dedicated to communities in the US., there is no room for Chevron, Hyundai, North America and For more information, krcla.orglblog. PACIFIC ~ CITIZEN NATIONALICOMM UNITY FEB. 3·16, 201 2 7 JAVA PROPOSES u.s. POSTAGE STAMPS JACL ANNOUNCES POWER FEATURING CONGRESSIONAL GOLD MEDAL AWARDEES OF WORDS COMMITTEE he Japaoese Ame ricao Veter• JAVA's proposal bas a lready Tans Associatio o is propOS iD g been endorsed by tbe Japanese ationa l JAC1.. recently a nno uoced tbe me mbelS of tbe Power to the u.s. Fbstal Service that a Ame rican WWU Veterans Stamp N of Words Co mmittee, wbicb is comprised of various JACLers commemorative stamp series be Ca mpaig, whicb is co-cbaired by from the seven districts. issued for WWII military units that Fusa Takahasbi, Chiz a bita, Aiko The Power of Words initiative is a movement to ensure the nse of have received the Congressional King and Wayne Osako. accurate terminology for the Japanese American World War II expe• Gold .Medal in recognitio D of the I n a statement they note: "We rience. The goal oftbe initiative is to recommend that inaccurate mis• recent Congressio na l Go ld !v1edal fu lly s upp ort tbe commemorative nomers and eupbemisms oftbe past be replaced in future discourses (CGM) awarded to th e Work! War stamp proposal from JAVA tbat is witb more accurate descriptors. II Nisei soldiers. based upon bonoring veterans wbo It was at tbe National JAC1..co nvention in Chicago in 2010 that The commemorative stamp se • have earned th e Congressional the Fbwer of Words Reso lution passed by an overwbelming vote of rie<> wo uld includ e the Japanese Gold !v1edal. Tb is wou kl be a won• 82 to 2. At the convention in Los Angeles last year tbe Power of American soldiers of the I DOth tn • derful trib ute to American veterans Words Emergency Resolution was passed by a vote of 55 to 17. Botb fantry Battalion, 442nd Regimen • who have clearly made their mark of these resolutions call for the creation of a Power of Woros com• tal Combat Team and the Military o n history. We urge tbe U.S. Ibstal mittee to develop a handbook and implement a plan to promote and Intelligence Service; Tuskegee Service to continue its tradition of support tbe use of app ropriate termioology in all future documents, Airmen; Women A irforce Service recognizing the contributions of publications and educational traioiogs. Pilots (WASP); a Dd tbe Navajo our nation's veteraos." JAC1..Natiooal Preside nt David Kawamoto has appointed tbe fol • Chde Talkers. SUp portelS of th is e ffortcao seod lowing committee me mbelS: JAVA PresideDt Gerald Yamada leuelS to: Cha irwo ma o Jeao Pic ke r Greg MaMllan~ Chair - Maru • furthe r outlined th e ir proposal io a FilSteobe rg, Citlze os' Slamp Ad vi• Iani resides in Sa n F ranc isco a nd bas 'It is the hope letter to Cba irwo ma o l eaD Picker sory Committee; clo Stamp Devel• served on th e Sa n Francisco JAo.. Fir.rtenberg of th e Citizeus' Stamp opmeot; U.S. Postal Service; 475 board, is a past c bapter presid e nt, a nd of this com• Advisory Committee of the U.S. L'Enfant Plaza SW, Room 3300; served on the Pacific Citil.e lJ editorial JbstaJ Service. Wasbington, D. C. 20260-3501. board. He E a current member 0 f tbe "'To save on design costs, JAVA ed by eacb group. A copy of the letter should also JAC1.. National Education Committee. mittee that. .. suggests that the design of tbe Yamada further noted tbat tbe be sent to Gerald Yamada, presi• Megan Gately, Pacific Southn'est Congressional Gold Medals be stamps could be distributed witb dent; JAVA: 103 16 Mountington District Representative - Gate ly our communi- used for tbe stamp design for eacb all four groups on a single stamp Co urt; Vienna, VA 22182; or gya• works at tbe Arizona Historical So • group. Eac h Cav1 design bas been sbeet or printed separately for eacb mada @goingforwardstrategies. ciety in tbe Education a nd Outreacb ty can finally vetted by the U.S. Mnt and accept- oftbe WWII groups. com . • Statewide Division. Sbe has coordi• nated teacher-training workshops for tell our story.' JAC1.. since 2007 and is active in tbe Arizona JACLchapter and PSWD Sandra. Grant, Intennountain District Representative - Grant CHICAGO POLICE ARREST SEVEN IN works for the Utah State Office of Ed ucation as an educational spe• cialist for Title I Schools as a fisca l compliance office[ Sbe is active YOUTUBE BEATING OF ASIAN AMERICAN TEEN in the Wasatch FrontNorth JAC1..chapteraod Iotermountain District usa Hanasono, Midn'eSt District Representative - Hanasono a 15-year-old girl, two 16-year-old d io iso' t a lways clear io th e video, is a n ed ucator a nd has ta ught classes io commuoicatioo a nd Asian So far the police are boysaod tbree 15-year-old boys • whic h was posted 0 0 Yo uTube Ame rican studies 10 college stud e nts io tbe Midwest She is a o in• saying the attack were c ited io juveoile delinque ncy a od later re moved for violatiog terpelSO nal communication scbola r wbo bas speot yealS researcbing petitioos. All were c barged witb tbe s ite's policy " probibitiog bate pbenome oa related to stereotyping, racial d isc riminatioo and socia l was not racially mo• one count each of robbery and ag• speecb." At the e nd of t be video, snpport. Sbe is ac tive in tbe Midwest District Couocil and the Hoo• tivated. gravated battery, police spokesman tbe victim ruos away with the as• sier chapter. Mke Snllivan said. sailantscbas ing bim. Hiro Nishikawa, Eastern District Representative -Nisbikawa On the video, several attackers Tbe victim was taken to a bospi• is active in the Pbi.ladelpbia c bapter and the Eastern district. He is By Associated Press - many witb sweat sbirt boods ta l for a laceration to bis lip, bruis• retired from tbe biotecb phannaceutical drug discovery and develop• over their beads and some wearing ing a nd abrasions, autborities said. ment industry. As a young boy, be and bis family were incarcerated CHICAGO- Seven teenagers masks - are seen repeatedly kick• Po lice said th e motive was rob• at Poston during WWIl. He has lectured tbe past several years to were arrested recently in the beat• ing and puncbing tbe victim to tbe bery. Th e attackers allegedly took college and bigb school classes about tbe WWII camp experience. ing and robbery of a 17-year-old snow-covered ground Jan. 15 o n a pair of gy m sboes, tbe victim's Andy Noguch~ Northern California Western Nevada Pacific Asian American high scbool stu• the city's Soutb Side. Despite the wallet and nearl y $200 in casb. Representative - Noguchi is active in tbe Rorin cbapter and NC• dent tbat was fi lmed and posted on epithets, police said tbe beating did "At this time, it does not appear WNP district as their civil rigbts co-cbair. He was bonored in 2002 You Tube, c ity police said. In tbe not appear racially motivated. that this incident was racially mo• with the National JACLer of the Biennium Award for organizing sup• video the attackelS can be beard Tbrougbout tbe more than three• tivated," a Jao. 17 statement from port for tbe innocent Muslim, Arab and South Asian communities repeating racial slu lS an d makiog minute video, the assailants, wbose the police departmeot said. Cbica• after 9111. He is a recently retired seoior iovestigator and assistant dero gatory comments about speak • rac ial identities a re uoclear, c ao be go authori ties dedi oed to discuss district director for th e U.s. Departmeol of Ltbor!W.J.ge & Hour Di• iog Chioese. beard llS io g tbe N-word dozeos of furth er details, c itio g a pending VES lon. One o f the teens, now id e ntified times, aod ooeattackerasks, "Am I in vesti ga tioo . Dawn Rego, PaciRc Northwest Representath1! - Rego is !.h e as Ray mo nd Palo mino, 17, was speakiog Cbioese to you?" MembelS o f CeaseFire, Chi• conference & events ma nager for tbe Natiooa l Court Appointed Spe• c barged as a n adu lt and th e rest - Tbe videotaped attack 00 a teeD cago's most well-koowo a oti-v io• cial Ad\'ocate (CASA) Association , a c bild advocacy orgaoizatioo. io Ch icago iso't the filStto go vira l. le nce advocacy group, said tbat it S be is active in tbe Seattle JAG..and Pacific North westdistrict 'People usa the "N• 10 2009, footage of the fatal bea t• did appear race was a fuctor in the Bob Taniguchi. Central Califo rnia RelJresentative - Tanigu• iog ofa 16-year-old honor student attack, especia lly because of the chi teaches mathematics at Merced Co mmuoity College. He is active word" whether they're was cin::nlated worldwide. usageof s lurs. in the Livingston-Merced cbapter and the Central California district African American, La• In the most recent video, tbe as• ''People use tbe 'N-word' In a national JACLstatement, the 0 rga nization says: ''It is tbe bope tino or Asian. But when sailants at times used a sboe and a wbe th er tbey' re African American, of tbis committee that by accurately promoting correct terminology, cbunk of ice to strike tbe victim, as Latino or Asian, " said CeaseFire eliminating tbe use of government misnomers and eupbemisms, our you beat up a guy, It's be pleads for tbem to stop in wbat DirectorTio Hardiman. ''But wben community can fina Uy tell o ur story." • raolally motivated." sounds like broken or beavily ac• you beat up a guy, it's racially mo• cented Englisb. However, tbe au- tivated." • For more ilJformatiolJ: www.JA CLPowerOjWords.org. 8 FEB. 3-16, 2012 VOICES PACIFIC ~ CITIZEN NIKKEI VOICE Capture Your Family's Food Culture Before It's Too Late By Gil Asakawa ore than other Asian Ameri• the US., and of coulSe hear about their con• a soy-vinegar sauce topped with cucumbelS, after that my mom stopped making a lotof can communities, Japanese centration camp experiences, I sometimes ham, egg and ginger, among other ingredi• the more complicated Japanese dishes and Americans are losing our in• long for another kind of cultural history: the ents). fur most:New Year's eves she would just cooked for helSeif. A couple of yea IS M stitutional cultural knowledge culinary kind. serve a banquet of handmade sushi for us ago we moved her into a smaller house as our elders die. The Nisei are, like Tom My mother is an Issei. My dad was a Ni• and lucky family friends, along with a feast across the street from my youn ger brother, Brokaw's "Greatest Generation," passing sei born in Hawaii in the 1930s. They met of other traditional food. and she has given up more of her cooking. Oll. }.funy Sansei (including myself) are on when my dad was in the US. Army and I didn't like it all - stuff like oden and She's now becoming more and more the older end ofthe Baby Boomer scale and stationed in Hokkaido. My brothelS and I salmon stunk up the house and I was embar• forgetful, and so we decided to ask if she we're no spring chickens either. were all born in Japan when my dad was rassed to bring my non-Asian friends over. would help us learn how to make two sig• &:lmeAsian ethnic communities in the stationed there in the decade after the Ko• To this day, I'm not much of a fish eater nature dishes, and allow us to videotape her. United States are more recent arrivals than rean conflict. So we have strong ties to and because there was so much salmon in the My wife Erin and I spent a day with her and the Japanese. }.funy JA families came to the childhood memories of Japan. house all my childhood. made unohana okara and kakiage tempura, states in the early 1900s and can count Yon• My mom has always cooked Japanese She even made her own tofu, because both favorite dishes of OUIS. sei and Gosei, and even Rokusei genera• food. She cooked all kinds of Japanese she either couldn't find tofu in stores here We had asked heryealS ago if we could tions at gatherings. Within these families, dishes for us when I was young. Even when in the States, or she didn't like the taste of videotape her cooking, but she refused then. those Issei immigrants are already faded she cooked spaghetti or steak or some other store-bought tofu once it became common I think now she knows her time is limited, history. Western dish for us, she cooked Japanese in supermarkets. And, she would mix the and so is her memory, so she didn'tcom• So it's no wonder we have efforts to food for helSeif - usually salmon and miso fibrous side-prod uct of makin g tofu with phin. In fact she seemed to enjoy being the star of the production. It was a powerful, capture the senior generation on audio and soup. When we had hamburgelS, spaghetti shrimp, scallops and vegetables to make wonderful day reliving family food memo• video oral histories. The Seattle-based Den• or pizza, she wouk! serve white rice not just unohana okara. ries and learning to make these dishes. sho organization (www.densho.org) is doing for helSeif but for us if we wanted. (It never She also used to make killer tempura I'm glad we did it, and hope we can film an excellent job of archivin g the stories of occurred to me to put the spaghetti sauce - not too bready, and with the perfect, not• more cooking lessons with my mom this our eldelS. The Japanese American National over the rice!) too-soy-saucy dashi. 1-klst often, instead year. I urge all JAs to do the same. Our fam• Museum and organizations such as Go For Some of the Japanese dishes I grew up of making the tempura people are familiar ily histories are important. But our family Broke National Education Center (www. with were her homemade teriyaki sauce with at restaurants, she wouk! make kakiage culture - including our culinary culture - goforbroke.org) offer great resources for (no gloppy sticky fake bottled stuff for us), tempura, kind of a comfort-food velSion of is priceless .• cond ucting your own oral histories. gyoza dumplings, chawan mushi egg cus• small bits of shrimp, snow peas, carrots and Although it's cool to watch people re• tard, soba (she made terrific dashi, or soup), green onions breaded and fried into palm• Gil Asakawa is the author of the Nikkei count their lives, and learn more about the oden, yakiniku and hiyashi chuka soba (a sized pieces. View blog at www.nikkeiview.com.andyou experiences of early Japanese immigrants to summertime favorite, cold ramen noodles in My dad passed away too young at 59, and can see his mother's cooking videos online. VERY TRULY YOURS Part 2: DVD and Two Books About Pearl Harbor By Harry K. Honda HIS IS DESSERT (so to speak), as was located in a rather spalSely populated THE SECOND READER, Allen H 1-1ey• and told how humane he was treated. two readelS have supplied "sweet• region in a fairly remote part of the Inland er of Chicago, a well-known attorney, was Allen writes, "Rick [was] the only student enelS" for this column with the Sea ... I was 13 or 14 yealS old at the time, an 11IS classmate of Ulrich "Rick" Straus, in our company fluent in German and Eng• T same title that ran last November. and had no idea of the significance of what I whose book, "The Anguish of Surrender: lish that led to his admittance to the Army A Kibei Nisei, Albert Yamamoto of :Min• was witnessing. Japanese roWs of World War II," that em• school" to learn Japanese. He was among the nesota Twin Cities and his sister, are be• "One of the noncom trainees used to visit bellished a story about another mini-sub. few accredited tri-lingual interpretelS and lieved to be theonly Americans in :Mitsukue• our home almost daily after training for rest The mini-sub, commanded by Ensign translatolS at the Tokyo War Crimes Trials. mura, Ehime-ken, in 1941 to see the men in and relaxation after a strenuous day of train• Kazuo Sakamaki, had a malfunctioning gy• At the 1993 11IS reunion in Washington, training who manned "Killer Subs at Pearl ing. He was not among those that attacked rocompass, couldn't locate Pearl Harbor, both Allen and Rick gave papelS, recalling Harbor". Pearl Harbor, but perished during a raid on sailed undelSea past Diamond Head, crashed their two months at Uraga (Kanagawa-ken) The Japanese Navy had anchored a hrge Sydney in [1fuy 31] 1942." into a reef and began to sink in Kaneohe Bay. interrogating roWs returning to Japan. barge with a crane in the middle of the small According to the "Oxford Companion to The mini-sub split into two. His Number Those from Dutch East Indies, where Dutch hamor as headquartelS and service base. The World War II," three Japanese mini-subs Two perished but Sakamaki swam ashore and British were using them to fight insur• Yamamotos were living in a house on the tried to torpedo Allied walShips in Sydney. 500 yams, and was arrested on Dec. 8 by gents, were still fully armed "and we were seawall that provided a view of the harbor. One got tangled in anti-torpedo netting and two Nisei Territorial Guards on patrol (Sgt. ordered not to carry arms, on the assumption Albertadds: 'Mtsukuewas selected as the scuttled itself. Another disappeared and the David Akui and Roy Terada). that if were not armed, they would not attack secret base, according to information that I third mini-sub was finally hunted down and Thus came US.A.'s filSt Japanese POW any of the eight of us." gained much later, because of its topographi• the two-man crew committed suicide. One and imprisoned at Camp 1-1cCoy, Wisconsin. cal similarities with Pearl Harbor and that it mini-sub was exhibited in Australia in 1942. After the war and back in Japan, he wrote »See HONDA pg.13 PACIFIC " CITIZEN ENTERTAINMENT FEE> 3-'0) 2012 9 ~~ 's only 0'"" thins that coa dl= octmGeol"8" ~i into wnali 1lump's toamroom b corrvte on GEORGE TAKEI HITS THE 'Jk Celebrity Awrentice ·· ~ainst fellow celebs: charity Eighteen celebrities. ilrhrling ~i. a~ vyill8 to win $250.cm for a charity of tUir cm ice on BOARDROOM IN NBC'S seasrn five of tU H3C smw. lli male contestants are PItted ~31nst tU female cast = m ~ r; III tU Tp ~ rni ere of 'Jk Celebrity Apprentice" onFeb. 12 If~i avoid; beill8 Md by1lump, ~ will give lis winrill8s b tU Jap,.,..,seA=ricanNatiom! Museum, or 'CELEBRITY APPRENTICE' W ~ "'m a fo ~ r chaillll3ll of tU tomi of tU JaJl3l""'se A""ricanNationaI Museum arrl currently a trustee . I've Actor George Takei is competing been on tU roam of trustees forproctically tU entire eu ," = of tU museum. AOO that's an institution that's very ,..,ar arrl c),ar to my ~ art "said ~i in his sigmtu-e baritcu voice '£ very o)VJrtmityI get to raise in the fifth season of "Celebrity = ""y for tU museum, I cb." ~i serves as chainmne=rilru oftU roam of trustees arrlhas sUpPJrted tU nuseun sira be fo ~ 1m Apprentice" in the hopes of winning w~nito pe,-.,d to tU jJJblic. In tU past ~i lEs also ooram Illi TV g~ smwprize wimings b tU mweum, so it's 00 SUl]lrise to tmse with JJo.N..1 that tU octor\l.Ulldoo so "Bain $250,000 for the Japanese American '''Jk Jap,.,..,se A=ricanNationaI Mus eum is extre""ly m oored to be George Thkei's claen charity for Ce• National Museum. lebrity App~ntice, ", said Chris Kamal, JJo.N..1 public infonmtion officer. '1+ lEs always set a Ii,-., examp" as a corrmwrity octivist with lis hairls-on ilNOlve=nt " Th win tU sm w, ~i willlE", to use Illi busi,..,ss oc,-",,",n to take rn as" w of celebs ilrllrlins AdamCar• By NaleaJ.Ko olla, ArsenioHaIl. Aub~y O'Day, C ~ryi TIegs, Clay Ailzn Dayanal-krdJZl., Deblie Gibson Dee &!ic),r, Lisa Reporter Lamp,.,..,lli, LouFenigoo , Michael Arrlretti, Patricia keep a few of tU ''rigid irrlividuaIistic " celebs on task Velasq,-",z. Paul TeutuI , Sr, ~lUl Jillette, 1hesa Giu• "We lEve a lot of c~ fs," Thkei sarl with a laush cfre, TIa Carre~ arrl Victoria GJtti aoolt Illi felbw cast = mber; 'Eut tU~ 's so ~,.., & fo ~ being cast on tU smw, ~i knew little of that,-.,eds b be ooing tU cookins as well. The~' s got Illi felb w cast mates, as de from co~ ,..-., Lisa to be that whip crocker to rerriOO people that. Yes , LamJl3l""'lli, woo ~ 1m \l.Uked with on tU C ~y talkill8 is Ii,-., Planning is ~ . & ill8 brilliant is ~ , Central Roast of William Shatur. but tU \mJk,..,eels to get cb,..,.'" Al tm ~h ~i says ~ didn't koow of s ~ ~al ity Celebs like !llaSician ~lUl Jillette mturally fell into TV stars like 'JkReal l-bJsewives of~w Jer- a lenrship rele , sari ~i. Krown IDJre for lis rele sey" star 1hesa Giulice - woo is I:oown for as SuIu on "Star 'fuk. "Thkei', bockgrowrl is al:;o in overtwnill8 a table rn TV - gossip amlt real estate ~ r ~ putati rn swirled on set w~n filmins Folb will8 his fatUr's \lisbes, ~i sWed archi• ",M tecture at tU Univer;ity of California, &rlz" y Not " W~ n I got on tU smw I was tol:i wantill8 to have any ~gret , ~i soon transferred to aooutit. that s ~ upt= tab" s arrl tU Unive1'3ity of California, Los Angeles w~re ~ get s ~ 's ratUr Iijs ," rical," ~i sarl his firstoctill8job aoout tU ~w Jersey ~al ity TV A castill8 direc\ccca~ht ~i's perfonmrce ina star. 'EutI fo mi ~rin foct b sttrlent pID:ilrtion arrl mbbed him fc.- tU lim '1 ce be octuaIly so=what shy, Pal,""", "staning Fichani Ewton arrlRcbertRyan. I t wlich is a strange \mm to was Thkei's fist feature lim appearame use to c),scribe so ~,.., "AOO with tlEt savill8s, m,' musht was to buy aMG woo has that kirrl rf RoOO;terto go to LUA ,"~i sa rl la~hiIl81y. 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" my fa tUr woo was in real eslate \cok tU = ""y from WOlkill8 = arrl put it into IDJrtgage on ce""tel)' plots, arrl alongs de so so m,' fatUr started = on real esla," in",s~nt. oot rralij mtsPJ• unlike w m!d ~'s fatUr." ken per;onaIi- Thkei says u parlayed lis earnings from tU cem• 1)", Thkei's etel)' plcts in to apar1l",-.,nt building jJJfChases 1+ has o~ aoout seven c.- eisht to date '1 still invest in ~al estate am I've got aootUr p=hase in AriIDm just percolatins right oow," ~i said Asicr from real estate arrl his gig on '''Jk Ce"brity App ~ nti ce, " Thkei is keeping busy with otUr JTIi eets ~i plays tU IDIographic rirj a grarrlfatUr onNick• elo:ron's "SupahNirj as " 1+ is also a co- c~ab r arrl cast = mber of tU llll3 i• cal "Allegiarce," a tUatrical pID:ilrtion thatloo\;s at tU JaJl3l""'se A=rican eXl" rieme during World WarII Th musical will p~rniere at The Old Globe tUa\erin SanDiego, Calif on Sep\. 16 UnW tUn, Thkei's faro canca\ch lim on TV in 1hrnp's bcardroom w~re drama is s= to unfol:i '''Jk =tstressful part is beill8 in tU tOl.ltiroJm because that is ","",re tU decisions are rracr," ~i sarlo"We all want to survive SJ tUre a~ so= that \lill be bockbitill8 in tU 100m I tiy to malnlain a high starrlard mpefully that got COmnJ1- • nicated to SO"" of tU o,..,s wm didn'\.". 10 FEB. 3-16, 2012 NATIONALICOMM UNITY PACIFIC ~ CITIZEN JACL CCDC TO HONOR WWII VETERANS NATIONAL NEWSBYTES AT DAY OF REMEMBRANCE CEREMONY By Pacific Citizen Staff and Associated Press Hew VII'k Legislature Seeks 10 create Asian Dislrlcls By Pacific Citizen Staff ~ ALBANY, N.Y.-New York's Legislature has proposed adding four ~ ": .~~~t~ ~- - - election districts that will be dominated by Asian American voters and In a tribute to the heroic Japanese -« , the &nate would add a 63rd seat under a long-awaited redistricting American World War II veterans, ~j' ~_t'" plan. ,- ;f.1,. 1'.: ff-; '" .,...... the Central California District of .. ,--, - ~- The Assembly would create three districts in AA neighborhoods in . ~ .•,- -. -=- • . - ' . ¥~¥ . the JACL will award replica Con• , Queens and Brooklyn. The Senate would reconfigure election lines in ~J ;..!.~ ...~ gressional Gold 11"edals to the vets ·f i~ Queens to form an Asian-majority district. at its Day of Remembrance event. ( '"- -"',",8 ;.;m;, a. The proposed districts released Jan. 26 would also create a new ,,~, :~, In November of last year, some • I _'" . ' - • . , &nate seat in Democrat-dominated Albany County by carving out ~ .... ~ 1 1 ~!i.: / of the JA veterans made the trip to e .'$' . ,,..' a section of suburbs dominated by Republican voters. The &nate's ~.. • Washington, D.C. to receive their ,1- V. Republican majority says census data and voting rights laws demand Gold 11"edals in person. The local .. i .. ~ the addition in the faster growing Albany area. veterans will receive their replicas 't .. Feb. 19 at the CC District's DOR t~ San Francisco Gels OK 10 Pro_ With Subway WII'k ,11\, ~ luncheon. ., rf! • , ~I r ~...,.' SAN FRANCISCO-Federal officials have given San Francisco the "This year's Day of Remem• i,' '- green light to move forward with construction work for its $1.6 billion brance will pay special tribute to • subway expansion project. all our Nisei veterans who bravely 100th Battalion, became the most those who served in the Counter 1fuyor Ed Lee said Jan. 18 that the city received a "letter of non risked their lives on the battlefields highly decorated unit for its size in Intelligence Corps and the Wom• prejudice" from the U.S. Department of Transportation . The letter is of Europe and the Pacific to defend American military history. The he• en's Army Corps, will be receiving a strong sign that officials will approve nearly $1 billion in federal ourcountry," said Dale Ikeda, event roics of the 111S helped to shorten the replica medals .• grants for the expansion within the next few months, said Lee in a San co-chair. "Because many of our lo• the duration of the War. Francisco Chronicle article. cal veterans could not trowel to the During the War, Fresno County CCDC DOR The project would extend the T-Third line from the Caltrain station, Capitol for the national ceremony, had two temporary assembly cen• on the south side of the city, to Chinatown, on the north side. The we wanted to take the opportunity ters where JAs were held before Dale: Feb. 19, reception at subway's estimated opening date is 2019. here at home to pay tribute to their being sent to various concentration noon, lunch and med3.1 courage and patriotism." camps. At the Pinedale Assembly ceremony 1 p.m. Arizona Park Hamed 10 Communities across the coun• Center there were 4,832 internees Location: Clovis Veterans Hono. JA BasebaD try will be holding various DOR and 5,344 internees were held at Memorial Building on Fourth CHANDLER, Ariz.-The events, where people will remem• the Fresno Assembly Center. Street Chandler City Council voted 6-1 ber the significance of the signing A grant from the Nisei Farmers Price: $40 (veteran and a guest, in favor of changing the name of of Executive Order 9066. The bill League will cover the cost of the or a spouse of a veteran and a West Chandler Park to Nozomi, was signed 70 years ago send• replica Gold Medals and other ex• gJest are free) meaning hope in Japanese. ing close to 120,000 Americans penses for the veterans. The event Info: Family members of Bill Staples, who is on the of Japanese ancestry to various is being co-sponsored by the Clo• veterans Vvtlo have passed Chandler Parks and Recreation American concentration camps vis Veterans Memorial District. away can contact Dale Iked1 for Advisory Board member, during World War II. Despite this The DOR phnning committee is more information at 559B13- collected 250 signatures in injustice, many JAs volunteered to currently looking for Nisei veter• 9322 or [email protected] support of the name chan ge. fight for the United States on the ans in the Central Valley. In addi• RSVP: Reservation deadline is The JACLaLso provided Staples battlefields of WWII. The 442nd tion to the 442nd, 100th and 111S Feb. 12. Gall Bobbi Hanad1 at with a letter of support. Regiment, which later included the veterans, all WWII vets, including 559/434-1662 "By adoptin g this new name we will honor the past, educate the present and provide a source of wisdom for future generations," Staples told the board. Delails Wanled In calilll'nia Legislalll''s Shoplifting Case AAS CELEBRATE FRED KOREMATSU DAY HAYWARD, Calif.-It was just an accident, California Assemblywoman}..hry Hayashi's representatives say, that the By Pacific Citizen Staff When President Franklin Public Library. Community hwmaker walked out of Neiman 11"arcus without paying $2,500 Roosevelt signed EO. 9066, activists Min Yasui and Gordon for leather pants, a skirt and a blouse. Later, a more dire-sounding Asian Americans nationwide Korematsu, then 23, refused to be Hirabayashi were also honored at explanation emerged: a benign brain tumor for which she is taking paid tribute to a JapaneseAmerican relocated with the some 120,000 the event. medication. civil rights hero on California's people of Japanese descent who Other celebrations across the Hayashi pleaded no contest to the shoplifting charge Jan. 6. The 2nd annual Fred Korematsu Day. were unjustly incarcerated during nation also recognized Korematsu. three-term lawmaker who has represented Castro valley and Hayward In early January Calif. Gov. WWII. Korematsu was hter At the Smithsonian's National since 2006 is prevented from running again because of term limits and Jerry Brown proclaimed Jan. 30 to arrested and interned in 1942. Portrait Gallery in Washington, has no plans to resign. She is the wife of Alameda County Superior be Fred Korematsu Day, in honor Korematsu took his case to the D.C. two 1940s-era portraits of Court Judge Dennis Hayashi. of the JA civil rights icon. FOnner Supreme Court, working with the Korematsu were presented on Hayashi was sentenced to three years of probation, ordered to pay Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger American Civil Liberties Union. Feb. 2 in a private ceremony. The $180 in fines and court costs and told to stay at least 50 feet away in 2010 signed Assembly Bill In 1983 Korematsu's name was photos, which were gifts from the from the Neiman 1furcus store. 1775 naming the day in honor of cleared when he petitioned to Korematsu family, will be a part Korematsu, a native Californian. reopen the case and his conviction of a pennanent exhibit called "The CDC Finds Ethnic Disparities in can .... Screening "Fred Korematsu's legacy was overturned. Congress in 1988 Stru ggle For Justice." A new study finds that there are significant disparities in cancer represents courage in the face of issued a formal apology to those Those in attendance at the event screening rates in AA and Hispanic populations. The study was discrimination. It was a privilege unjustly incarcerated and awarded included Korematsu's daughter, commissioned by the National Cancer Institute and Centers for to know Fred and his family each survivor $20,000. President Karen, and Rep. Judy Chu. Norman Disease Control and Prevention. personally," said Rep. 11"azie Bill Clinton awarded Korematsu Mineta, former U.S. secretary of In theAA community screening rates for breast cancer, cervical Hirono, D-ill. "Although it took with the Presidential 1-1edal of transportation, also spoke at the cancer and colorectal cancer were lower then the Healthy People 2020 close to four decades for Fred to Freedom award in 1998. ceremony, among others .• target rates. The breast cancer screen in g rates was 64.1 percent, below receive justice, his story reminds In the city of Pasadena, Southern the 81 percent target. Cervical cancer screening was 75.4, with the us that we must continue to commit Californians honored Korematsu For more infonnation about the target rate at 93 percent oumelves to the ideals of equality and his legacy in theJAcommunity exhibit, visit npg.si.edu or call The study's authors say their findings demonstrate the need to and diversity." in a ceremony held at the Pasadena 202/633-1000. continually track cancer screening rate disparities.• PACIFIC ~ CITIZEN NATIONAL/COM M UNITY FEB. 3-16 2012 11 APAS IN THE NEWS 43RD ANNUAL MANZANAR PILGRIMAGE SET Planning is already underway By Pacific Citizen Staff and Associated Press for the 43m Annual1-hnzanar Pil• grimage which will take place this NJ Governor Pcks Asian American for Top Court year on April 28. 1RENrON, N.J. - New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie proposed a his• Sponsored by the Los An geles• toric first for the state Supreme Court by nominating a Korean-born based 11anzanar Committee, the law enforcement official to the bench on Jan. 23. The Republican gov• pilgrimage will start at noon at the ernorannounced the nomination of Phillip H. Kwon at a Statehouse 1funzanar National Historic Site, news conference. located on US. Highway 395 in Kwon wolks in the Attorney General's Office and lives in Bergen California's Owens Valley, be• County. He would be the first Asian American on the high court. The tween the towns of Lone Pine and nomination needs confirmation from the DemocIat-controlled Senate. Independence, approximately 230 miles north of Los Angeles. Broward Swears in First Asian Ameran Judge Each year, hundreds of students, FORT LAUDERDAlE, Fh.-Broward County's first Asian Ameri• teachers, community members, can judge has been sworn into office. The South Florida Sun &ntinel clergy and fonner incarcerees at• reports Circuitludge Raag Singhal was sworn in during ajudicial rob• tend the pilgrimage. ing ceremony at the state courthouse Jan. 20. The evening program will in• Singhal's parents emigrated from India to the U.S. in 1960. He said clude 1-hnzanar At Dusk (1-1AD) his parents had almost nothing when they arrived in :Michigan. from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Lone Pine Singhal was born three years later and grew up in New Jemey. He High School gymnasium, located later moved to 80uth Florida, where he became a well-known death at 538 &:luth 1fuin Street (US. geles: area, will be announced at a opment of the 1funzanar National penalty lawyer. Highway 395), in Lone Pine, nine later date. Historic Site.• miles south of the 1-hnzanar Na• Pilgrimage participants are ad• Former Minnesota State Senator Mee Moua to Lead AAJC tional Historic Site, across the vised to bring their own lunch, street from McDonald's. The Asian American Justice Center has named former Minnesota drinks and snacks as there are no 43rd Annual Manzanar 11AD is co-sponsored by the State Sen. Mee Moua as president and executive director. On 1-hrch facilities to purchase food at the Pilgrimage 19 she will succeed Karen Narasaki, who served for 20 years with the Cal Fbly Fbmona Nikkei Student 1-hnzanar National Historic Site. national civil right organization. Union, the UClA Nikkei Student Water will be provided at the site. Date: April 28, noon to 8 p.m. 1-1oua recently served as vice president for strategic impact initia• Union, the UCSD Nikkei Student The non-profit 1-hnzanar Com• Location: Manzanar tives at the Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum. Previ• Union, Lone Pine Unified School mittee has sponsored the annual National Historic Site ously, she served three terms in the Minnesota Senate where she District, and Lone Pine High 1-hnzanar Pilgrimage since 1969, Info: manzanarcommittee. chaired the Judiciary Committee. Born in war-torn Laos, her family School. along with other educational pro• org, 323/662-5102, or http:// fled a refugee camp in Thailand and moved to the United States when More details about the pilgrim• grams. The 1-hnzanar Committee bI og.m an zan arcom m ittee. erg she was five. She has a juris doctorate from the University of:Minne• age, including information on bus has also played a key role in thees• sota Law School. transportation from the Los An- tablishment and continued devel- Stephanie Otani-Sunamoto Named New JACL Inouye Fellow Stephanie Cltani-Sunamoto has been 'UNDERSTANDING NO-NO AND RENUNCIATION' named the new Daniel K. Inouye Fel• low. She will assist with JACL's public IS THEME FOR 2012 TULE LAKE PILGRIMAGE policy initiatives and leadership pro• gramming from the D.C. office. The The 4-day pilgrimage transportation, lodging, meals experiences and help heal the fellowship is named after Hawaii's and all activities during the four• wounds of the incarceration expe• longtime Sen. Daniel Inouye and is will take place June day pilgrimage. The Tule Lake rience.• sponsored by Eli Lilly. Committee again will offer free Otani-Sunamoto is a graduate of 30-July 3. registration to former Tule Lake 2012 Tule Lake Stanford University with a bachelor's incarcerates who are 80 years and "Understanding No-No and Pilgrimage degree in comparative studies in race and ethnicity with honors. older. Renunciation" is the theme for this The pilgrimage registration Dale: June 3O-July3 Dr. Hisashi Kajikuri Awarded Foreign Minister's Award year's 19th pilgrimage to the Tule deadline is April 30. After April Registration fee: $4001 Lake concentration camp which Dr. Hisashi Kajikuri, a cardio-thoracic surgeon from Monterey, 30, ifthere is space available, the person, $325 for low or fixed income, free for former Tule Calif., has been awarded Japan's fureign :Minister's Commendation will take place June 30 to July 3. registration fee will be $450 for all The pilgrimage will continue Lake internees over 80; forms award for his efforts to promote mutual understanding between Japan categories. the focus on the Japanese Ameri• at 'o'v'Ww.tulelake.org and the United States. Activities during the four-day can dissenters who said "no" to Registration deadline: Apr. 30 He is affiliated with the Community Hospital of the Monterey Pen• pilgrimage include a tour of the Lodging: Oregon Institute of America's demand that they prove insula and is a longtime member of the Buddhist Temple in 1-1onterey. Tule Lake campsite and a memo• Technology in Klamath Falls loyalty, and understanding the Born in Japan, Dr. Kajikuri first came to the US. on a Fulbright Fel• rial service. Intergenerational dis• Info: Hroshi Shimizu, 415/566- nearly 5,600 Japanese Americans lowship. After returning to Japan again he eventually resettled in the cussion groups and open forums 2279,4151317-2686 (cell) who gave up their devalued US. US. permanently at his current home in Monterey. provide an occasion to learn, share or hshimizu@ pacbell.net citizenship while segregated at Siegelman Named NCAA. Division III AU-Amara Second Team Tule Lake. The Tule Lake Pilgrimage Com• Sachi Siegelman, a former JACLBerkeley Chapter scholarship and 27 GAS STATIONS & C-SlORES FOR mittee recently announced that Bea Kono Scholarship winner, was recently named to the 2011 NCAA SALE IN NJ. NY. OH & PA registration forms for the four-day Division III All-America Second Team in women's soccer. She is cur• event are now available at www. rently a senior at Williams College. 21 stations are for sale with the real estate. Great business tulelake.org. And because of the opportunity with major fuel brands such as Exxon, Shell and BP. Siegelman was also named to the 2011 NCAA Division III All• all-volunteer work ofthe Tule The stores are for sale individually. New England First Team, the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) New England Women's Soccer All Stars First Team, and the Lake Committee, the registration fee is made possible at $400 per For more information please go to: IIIIWwmatrixenergyandretail.com 2011:New England Small CollegeAthletic Conference (NESCAC) Click on "Dataroom" or call: person. fur those on low or fixed All-Conference First Team. A co-captain and starting defender of the Sean Dooley- 410.752.3833, ext. 4 incomes, the fee is $325. Williams women's soccer team, she helped the team advance to the John UnderVvOOd- 331.457.5143 The registration fee is all• quarterfinals of the 2011 NCAA Tournament.. Spencer Cavalier - 410.752.3833, ext. 2 inclusive and covers charter bus 12 FEB. 3-16, 2012 COMMUNITY PACIFIC ~ CITIZEN NAT'l JACl KICKS OFF 2012 SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM NAT'l JACl PROGRAMS John Moy & Southwest Airlines Congressional Internship Program National JACL is now accepting applications for its John 1-1oy & SouthwestAiriines Congressional Internship. During the progIam's inauguIaI year in 2011, interns were placed in the offices of Reps. Xavier Becerra, Calif.-31, and :Mike Honda, Calif. -15. Con gressional interns will have a unique opportunity to experience the policymaking process and gain exposure to Asian American Facific Islander issues. COJ'ITESY Cf' DmlELLE KIH.ARA. Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis for two eight• National JACL plans to distribute some $70,000 to deserving college students. week, paid internships beginning in Winter 2012. Duties and respon• sibilities will be outlined by the congressional member's office in Each year national JACL pro• student or individual JACL mem• be considered for the awards. which the intern is placed. Placement offices have yet to be deter• vides more than $70,000 in schol• ber. 11embership under a parent or Applications for all other schol• mined. Preference will be given to rising undergraduate juniors and arships to approximately 30 de• family will be not accepted. arship categories can be mailed seniors and recent graduates. serving students and the organiza• All freshman applications must directly by the applicant to: 2012 This internship program is made possible by a donation from tion plans to do so again in 2012. be submitted to the applicant's lo• JACL :National Scholarship Pro• John Moy, a longtime supporter and member of JACL, and round• This year, JACL will once again cal chapter by 1furch 1. The ap• gIam, clo Fbrtland JACL, PO. trip tickets will be provided by JACL's official airline, &:luthwest offer scholarships for incoming plications will be screened by each Box 86310, Portland, OR 97286. Airlines .• college freshmen, undergraduates chapter and the outstanding ones Applications for these categories and gIaduates, and those specializ• will be forwarded to: 2012 JACL must be postmarked by April 1 to For more information, contact 2021223-1240 or [email protected]. ing in law or the creative/perform• National Freshman &holarship be considered for the awards. ing arts. There is also a schohrship Committee, clo Salt Lake City Students can join JACL via the for those in need of financial aid in JACL, PO. Box 584, Salt lake website or by calling 415/921- this time of rising tuition costs. City, Utah 84110. There is no limit 5225.fur questions, contact NC• The JACUOCA Leadership Information, including a bro• to the number of applications a WNP Dir. Patty Wada: jacl-ncwn• chure and all scholarship applica• chapter may forward for consider• [email protected] or National JACL Summit is March 1 0-13 tions, can be downloaded at www. ation. The forwamed applications VP for Planning & Development jac1.org. All applicants must be a must be postmarked by April 1 to Jason Chang: [email protected] .• National JACLrecently announced that its 2012 JAClJOCA Wash., D.C. Leadership Summit has been scheduled for 1-hrch 10-13. The JACIJOCA Leadership Summit is a joint program organized With so mcmy places to shop for long-term care by JACL and OCA, formerly the Organization for Chinese Ameri• . l:?-~ _ covemge, how do you decide what's best for you? cans. This four-day conference provides an opportunity for30 emerg• ing leaders of the JACL and OCA to learn firsthand about current Start shopping from the national public policy issues facing the Asian American community. Shopping for source you can trust. fur more information and an application: http://jac1.org/leadership/ dc-summithtm. Long-Term Care Call loll-free fur questions, contact a JACLdistrict office or the JACLD.C. of• 1-800-358-3795 loday. fice at 2021223-1240 or email Stephanie Otani-Sunamoto at inouye• Insurance? Or visil [email protected] .• www·iaclinsurance.com. As a JACL member, you don't have to worry. Don't know That's because you can trust JACL and JACL's Chicago JACLs Project: Long-Term Care Call Center. It's available to you, your spouse, your parents and your whom to trust? parents-in-law. Community! Now When you call the JACL Long-Term Care Accepting Applications Call Center at 1-800-358-3795, you'll get the first-rate service you deserve from salaried, The Chicago JACL is now accepting applications for its Project: licensed agents. Community! program, a leadership development and cultuIaI Your Long-Term Care Agent will awareness progIam for JapaneseAmerican high school students. ./ Provide personalized one-on-one service Through interactive workshops and activities, participants will explore their personal identity, gain an awareness of the history and ./ Offer needs-based analysis based on your character of the Japanese American community in Chicago, and learn personal situation and budget about the issues facing the community today. Project: Community's ./ Help guide you through the long-term care goal is to inspire and empower the future leadelS of the JA community. buying process Sessions will be held at the Chicago JACL office on Saturdays in ./ Custom-tailor a plan for you 1-hrch and April, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Workshops will include a session on JA history featuring a panel discussion with former WWII What's more, you'll never be pressured to buy and you're never under any obligation. internees; a session on bullying, discrimination and hate crimes facilitated by Esther Hurh of the Anti-Defamation League; and a Admini _od by IAo r" u.s. Con>Lmo>r, a ""rYOo ~ session exploring the importance of the Asian American movement MARSH of Soabury« Sni th , Inc and identity facilitated by Kevin Kumashiro, professor of Asian CA Ins. lic. #0633005 American Studies at VIC. AR Ins. lic. #245544 Applications are due by Feb. 10. The program is free and lunch will d/b/a in CA Seabury & Smith Insurance Program Management be provided during all sessions. 55826/55416 OSoobury & Smith. Inc. 2012 fur more information, contact Christine Munteanu at jac1.fellow@ gmai1.com or visit www.jaclchicago.org .• PACIFIC ~ CITIZEN COMMUNITY FEB. 3-16,2012 13 PROMINENT JAS SELECTED FOR LEADERSHIP DELEGATION TO JAPAN Ten Japanese American leaders from across the country have been selected to travel to Japan to meet with top officials to further develop the U.S.-Japan relationship and establish a meaningful role for Japanese Americans. This is the twelfth delegation to participate in the Japanese American Leadership Delegation (JALD) program, which IS sponsored by the :Ministry of FOreign Affairs of Japan and organized by the U.S.-Japan Council. For the first time III program history, the delegation will visit the city of &ndai in the Tohoku region to show support for the region devastated by the Great East Japan Earthquake and learn from those living there. In &ndai, the delegates will participate in a symposium sponsored by the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership and entrepreneurship, NGOiNPO lead the delegation. (D.C.), president and executive and Warren LLP; Barry Taniguchi the U.S.-Japan Council focused on partnerships, high technology The 2012 JA Leadership director, Asian Pacific Islander (Hilo, Hawaii), president and empowering civil society in Japan. and ed ucation, amon g others. The Delegation includes: Mchael American Scholarship Fund; Janet CEO, KTA Super Stores; Mchael The delegation will also visit delegates come from across the Bosack (Denver), manager, Ikeda (Lexington, VA), associate Tanimura (Chicago), co-founder Tokyo for a variety of exchanges country and are active in their International Programs, Sparta professor, East Asian Languages and creative director, Silver Image with high level leaders. communities, engaged in US.• Inc.; Barbara Hibino (San and Literatures, Washington and Creative, Inc.; and Paul Watanabe This year's delegation was Japan relations and committed Francisco), CEO and founder, Lee University; 1-hrk Mitsui (Boston) , associate professor, chosen based on several key to deepening ties between JAs OpenWebU, Inc.; Shannon lliri (Seattle), president, North Seattle DepartmentofFblitical Science U themes bein g developed by the and Japan. US.-Japan Council (Mami), main anchor, WFOR Community College; Susan Onuma of1-fassachusetts, Boston.• US.-Japan Council including President Irene Hirano Inouye will - CBS Affiliate; Neil Horikoshi (New York), partner, Kelley Drye HONDA Polaris Tours UCLA ASIAN AMERICAN »co.li.ued from PII. 8 Presents: STUDIES CENTER ANNOUNCES Of the ship with Japanese POWs from Europe, "we opened their ARATANICAREGRANTS steamer trunks ... to discover dia• 2012 Tour Schedule ries, communications and orders in such volume that we had to call Mar. 19 - Mar. 29 Majestic Cltina: ''Shanghai, GoUin, Xian, Beijing" ATIS for help." 1st Cav sent men Apr. 03 - Apr. 12 Spring Japan: '~e Beanty of the Clterry to guard the luggage; some docu• Blossoms" ments were in German, "so it was Apr. 12 - Apr. 24 Beantiful South Korea: AU Major Illghlights & fortunate that Rick was among the Drama Sites linguists. Apr. 12 - Apr. 18 mothAmtiversary Cherry Blossoms in Washington "After some hours of review of DC & Williamsburg the documentary material, Rick's May 05 - May 20 ll'easures ofThrkey: \Vhere Europe meets Asia group had it appropriated and for• May 24 - May 26 Summertime Las Vegas: Show: Rod Stemu1 or warded to Tokyo" .... Our concern Garth Brooks was with preparing evidence for Jun. 11 - J1lll. 24 Discover Croatia: Dahnatian Coast & Slovania War Crimes trials. NHK, major Jul. 03 - Jul. 12 Summer Japan: ''Vacation with the \Vhole George and Sakaye Aratani are pictured here on the far left. newspapers, Stars and Stripes re• Family" ported them to be a "treasure trove Ang.04 - Aug. 12 Canadian Rockies & Glacier National Park The Ua.A Asian American Studies Center recently announced that located by the 1st Cav; no mention Sep. 06 - Sep. 17 Let's Go Hokkaido the George and Sakaye Aratani Community Advancement Research of Rick's group or Allen's group. Sep. 29 - Oct.lO The Legendary Danube River Cruise: Hungary, Endowment, or Aratani o\RE, grant applications are now available. ''The 1st Cav colonel was credited Austria, Germany Detailed infonnation about the grants and how to apply are available at: with the entire find and so went the Oct. 03 - Oct. 17 New England Colors & Eastern Canada: Fall Foliage www.aasc.ucla.edu/aratani.Allapplicationsaredueby 1-hrch 9. Occupation." Oct. 05 - Oct. 09 Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta: New Mexico's Most The Aratani o\RE grants are designed to promote projects that will Allen is still on the "lecture Dazzling Spectacle benefit and advance JA communities, and strengthen ties between the circuit" on veteran causes. He Oct. 16 - Oct. 25 Autumn Japan: Magnificent Fall Colors spoke at 11IS exhibits displayed Japanese American communities and UClA students, staff and faculty. Oct. 22 - Nov. 03 Spectacular South Africa & Victoria Falls at local schools and at the Illinois Non-profit organizations and qualified individuals are invited to apply Nov. 01- Nov. 12 The Best of Kyushu for grants ranging from $1,000 to $5,000, to strengthen ties between JA Holocaust Museum with 442nd Nov. 29 - Dec. 01 Holiday in Las Vegas: Show: TBA communities and UClA. Each proposal must include a campus partner vet Enoch Kanaya, a headliner (e.g., UCLA faculty, staff members, or student organization). in the Chicago Sun-Times (Nov. We will be happy to send you a brochure! Awams will be announced by 1-1ay, 2012. Grants should be completed 11, 2011). "So, you see I am kept within a year or less. busy," Allen post-scripts, "Idle 24 Union SlUa,,,, 9.Iil" .506 Union Qty, CA94587 This year's grants will be evaluated by a panel of three judges drawn hands can get you in trouble. " . lbIl Fire: (800) 858.2882 ~ P o la risTou r s www.lou.poIa.is.com from the UCLA's Asian American Studies Center's "Faculty Advisory Harry K. Honda is the Pacific Citi• Email: [email protected] Committee." • zen editor emeritus. 14 FEB. 316, 2012 CALENDAR PACIFIC ~ CITIZEN A NATIONAL GUIDE TO NOTABLE COMMUNITY EVENTS' Day of Remembranoe: From Honoullull to Ouantanamo HONOLULU, HI Feb. 12, 1 p.m. UH at Manoa Law School, Classroom 2 2515 Dole St The Honolulu chapter of the JACL is hosting the 2012 Day of Remembrance event "From Honouliuli to Guantanamo: Due Process Under Siege ," with key• note speaker Neal Katyal, former acting U.S. solicitor general. Info: Call 8081945-7633 or e-mail [email protected] Day of Remembrance Time of Remembrance Discov- at [email protected] or Swing Band. tickets.com/evenV219585 MERION, PA ery Program 559/313-9322. Info: Visit www.pdxjacLorg Feb. 25, 1:30 - 3:30 p.m. SACRAMENTO, CA NorCal JACL Remembranoe L.A. Day of Remembrance Merion Friends Meeting Jan. 3D - Mar. 23 Ceremony Oregon Nikkei Endowment Day LOS ANOELES, CA 610 Montgomery Ave. California Museum for History, SACRAMENTO, CA of Remembrance Feb. 18, 2 p.m. The free program features Women and the Arts Feb. 18, 1 p.m. PORTLAND, OR JANM speaker Jean Hibino, 10th and 0 Streets Secretary of State's Audito- Feb. 22, 6 p.m. 369 E. First st. executive secretary, of the This is an eight-week long rium University of Oregon, White The program will explore the Nisei Student Relocation educational program where 1500 11th Street Stag Building theme "70 years After E.O. students learn about the Japa- 9066," with speaker Robin Commemorative Fund, Inc. Donation: $15/Per adult; $101 70 NW Couch St. Info: Contact Teresa Mae- nese American experience. Students over 18 A panel discussion with recent Toma of the L.A. County Hu• bori at teresa.maebori@ Info: Call 9161654-1729 The Florin, Lodi, Placer grad students on Executive man Relations Commission. verizon.net Order 9066 and moderated by Organizers include the Nikkei JACL Central California Dlstrlot County and Sacramento Boston's Day of Remembrance FRESNO,CA JACL chapters are hosting the Peggy Nagae, the lead attor- for Civil Rights & Redress, the BOSTON, MA Feb. 19, reoeptlon noon, lunoh premiere of "Prisoners and ney in Yasui v. United States. JACL PSW district and JANM. Feb. 22, 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. and award ceremony begins at Patriots." Info: Call 503/224-1458 Info: Call 2131625-0414 UMass Boston, Room 35445 1 p.m. Info: Call 9161427-2841 Day of Remembranoe 2012 of the Campus Center Clovis Veterans Memorial Talko Festival Idaho JACL Day of Oregon Day of Remembrance Remembranoe 100 Morissey Blvd, Building on Fourth Street SEATTLE,WA PORTLAND, OR BOISE, ID UMass Boston professor Paul Cost: $40/General admission Feb. 19, 2 to 4 p.m. Feb. 19, 1 p.m. Watanabe and graduate stu- The Day of Remembrance Seattle University Feb. 20, 11 a.m. Portland State University'S Governor's Office dent Laura Ng will discuss event includes the awarding Hoffman Hall 1016 E. Marion st. their film on WWII Nisei. The of replica Congressional Gold Cost: $20/General admission 700 W. Jefferson St. # 228 1833 SW 11th Ave. Idaho's Day of Remembrance co-sponsors of the event in- Medals to local WWII vets. There will be a panel discus- Seattle University and the clude New England JACL, RSVP: Call Bobbi Hanada at Minidoka Pilgrimage Commit- is organized by Robert Hirai, sion moderated by professor Boise Valley JACL president. among others. 559/434-1662 by Feb. 12. Linda Tamura and perlor- tee are organizing this year's Info: Call 617/287-5650 Family members of late vets Minidoka Taiko Fundraiser, Info: Contact Rob Hirai at mances by the Minidoka [email protected] please contact Dale Ikeda Info: Visit www.brownpaper- » NCWNP Feb. 26, 1 to 3 p.m. 901 12th Ave. Society will highlight the pres- Monterey Congressional Gold The Cape Cod Restaurant This conference is sponsored ervation work accomplished Medal Ceremony 1150 Solano Ave. by the Fred T. Korematsu last year. MONTEREY, CA Cost: $251 Per person Center for Law and Equality RSVP: Contact littletokyo- March 4, 1 p.m. The Contra Costa JACL chap- at Seattle University School of hs@gmaiLcom JACL Hall ter installation luncheon will Law to commemorate the 25th 424 Adams St. feature guest speakers: Pro- anniversary of the Hirabayashi Tanoshll Fun Camp The Nisei Memorial Post 1629 fessor Brian Komei Dempster II. U.S, coram nobis case, GARDENA,CA Veterans of Foreign Wars and and JACLers Jill Shiraki and Info: Contact Junsen Ohno July 16-20, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. the JACL of Monterey Pen- Phillip Ozaki. at 2061398-4283. Gardena Valley Japanese insula are co-sponsoring this RSVP: To Susan Nishizaka Cultural Institute presentation ceremony honor- at 510/758-6055 by Feb. 17 »PSW 1964 W. 162nd St. ing Nisei vets. JANM Annual Dinner The Tanoshii Fun Camp pro- Info: Contact Jim Suzuki at JCCH's Judy Kawabata Exhibit LOS ANGELES, CA motes JA culture. Enrollment 831/384-8493 HONOLULU, HI May 5 is open to kids 7 to 10. Jan. 28 to March 16,10 a.m. to 4 J. W. Marriott Hotel Info: Contact Ray Shibata J-Sel Crab Feast p.m. 800 W. Olympic Blvd at Tanoshiifuncamp@gmaiL EL CERRITO, CA Japanese Cultural Center of JANM's 2012Annual Gala com Feb. 12,4 to 7 p.m. Hawaii, Community Gallery Dinner is themed "Transform- EI Cerrito Community Center 2454 South Beretania st. ing a Forgotten Story," high- » MOC 7007 Moeser Lane The exhibit "Judy Kawabata: lighting the evolution of the JA Mu Dalko Anniversary Concert The film "The California Cost: $40/Adult dinner tickets; An Artful Life" will highlight the experience. Norman Y Mineta ST. PAUL, MN State University: Sharing $45/At the door; $15/Children work of Hawaii-based artist will also be honored, Feb. 19, 2 p.m. and Celebrating Stories from The crab feast, benefiting Judy Kawabata. Info: Call 213/625-0414 McKnight Theater Nisei Honorary Degrees," is J-Sei, will feature taiko drum- Info: Call 8081945-7633 345 Washington St. a memorial dedicated to the mers. Frank and Amy Eto and Little Tokyo Historical Society's Cost: $29.501 Groups; $161 Japanese Americans at the Ruby Okazaki will be honored. »PNW New Year Celebration Students California State University who Info: Call 510/848-3560 or The 25th Anniversary of the Hlra- LOS ANGELES, CA This is Mu Daiko's biggest had their education interrupted visit www.j-sei.org bayashi Coram Nobis Case Feb. 4,12 p.m. to 2 p.m. performance. Special guest during World War II. SEATTLE, WA Senor Fish Hanayui will also perform. Info: Contact Colleen Bent- Contra Costa JACL Installation Feb. 11,8:30 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. 422 E. First st. JACL has reserved seating at ley at 5621951-4801 or e-mail Luncheon Seattle University, Campion Donation: $lO/Per person a discount. 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Arlene Nobusada, 5 grandchildren, Sandra Yemiko, or "Amy" as she was fondly Osaki, Kevin Nobusada, Alan Nobusada, called by her many friends, was born in San Cheryl Nobusada Kosakura, Mitsu Nobusa• Francisco and grew up in Alameda where da-Flynn, and 5 great grandchildren, rv1elina, she worked in her father, Harry Kana's floral Ethan and Kai Nobusada, and Jennifer and shop. She met Kiyoshi "Kay" Nobusada and Trevor Osaki. married in 1941. rv1a.rried for 56 years, they A private memorial service was held on were interned during WWII at Gila, AZ before Saturday, January 14, 2012. 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Attorney General camps. Yet, the government's mis• against the United States." E.O. 9066 that banished 110,000 few weeks, a good time to do some• Francis Biddle, was signed into treatment of JA "troublemakern" The bills are also being described pernons with Japanese faces to thin g to assure, "never again." law by President Roosevelt This and the unprecedented program to as closing a loophole in the Na• desolate concentration camps, This year, in the context of the law, known as the 1944 Renuncia• purge thousands of American citi• tional Defense Authorization Act, stripped of their rights, their hu• National Defense Authorization tion Act, led to thousands of Japa• zens through the denationalization signed into law on the eve of 2012 manity and their dignity - we Act that provides for indefinite neseAmericans imprisoned at Tule process is unknown to most JAs by President Obama, that provides must not close our eyes to what is military detention of the accused, Lake. and to the general public. for indefinite military detention of happening again. we need to be more vigilant than The government prepared to de• The victims who renounced the accused. The denationalization Unless we wish to render the ever, especially with two compan• port these so-called "disloyals" and their devalued citizenship were legislation couk! be applied to US. phrase "never again" meaningless, ion pieces of legishtion introduced "troublemakern" to Japan when the silenced, stigmatized by other Nik• citizens who are indefinitely de• we must continue speaking out this session of Congress. The two war ended. This unprecedented kei and marginalized by the perpet• tained, stripping away their rights to prevent other human and civil bills, S 1698 and HR 3166, resur• deportation program aimed at ual government-created loyal/dis• as American citizens and enabling rights travesties like E.O. 9066, rect the specter of the little-known thousands of JA dissidents almost loyal paradigm that defined protest their treatment as foreign enemy the Ren unciation Act of 1944, and government denationalization and wolked. The deportations were as disloyalty. The Anny and the combatants. streamlining the deportation of deportation progIaffi that the De• stopped by Northern California Department of Justice suppressed These companion denational• people who are deemed "trouble• partment of Justice used to strip ACiD attorney Wayne M Collins, details of their maneuverings, thus ization bills are an assault on our makern." More than ever, we need nearly 6,000 Americans of their who spent the next 20 yearn in a avoiding scrutiny and subsequent nation's belief in civil liberties and to renew our efforts at education U.S. citizenship while they were lonely, but overwhelmingly suc• legal challenges to their actions. civil rights, threatening unpopular and advocacy.• imprisoned at the Tule Lake con• cessful fight to restore citizenship The Enemy Expatriation Act, S groups with the same type of mis• centration camp during World War to thousands of JA renunciants. 1698 (Lieberman) and its compan• treatment that dissident JAs expe• Barbara Takei is CFO of th e non• II The denationalization program ion bill, HR 3166 (Dent) awaitac• rienced while imprisoned at Tule profit Tule loke Committee. For was one of WWII's extreme in• tion in Congress. 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